Kate Mayberry

South­east Asian na­tion’s new prime min­is­ter says he will gov­ern for all as he reach­es out across po­lit­i­cal di­vides.

Vet­er­an politi­cian fi­nal­ly se­cures top post af­ter in­con­clu­sive elec­tion led to days of hag­gling and king’s in­ter­ven­tion.

Peo­ple be­gan queue­ing be­fore polling sta­tions opened, de­spite storms and driz­zle, as three main coali­tions vie for pow­er.

Af­ter near­ly three years of shaky gov­ern­ments, Malaysians want politi­cians who can ‘do the work’.

Malaysia holds its gen­er­al elec­tion on Sat­ur­day with three lead­ing coali­tions vy­ing for pow­er and mil­lions of new vot­ers.

The polls, a year ear­li­er than sched­uled, will be the first since the vot­ing age was low­ered to 18.

The re­tired leader of the ter­ri­to­ry’s Catholic Church and crit­ic of Bei­jing is ac­cused of fail­ing to reg­is­ter a fund.

Ukraine news from June 18: Luhan­sk gov­er­nor says re­serves are com­ing from oth­er bat­tle ar­eas to Severodonet­sk.